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Work Motivation | Organizational Behavior
Shannon Sciarappa studies how people engage with work after leaving a profession they once considered a “calling.” Here’s how leaders can help make career passion sustainable.
9 Oct
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Leadership | Organizational BehaviorThree organizational behavior scholars on outgrowing familiar strengths, managing from the middle and navigating the limits of control.25 Sep
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Credit & Lending | More Business Wisdom
U.S. consumers and businesses are now facing a future of more expensive borrowing.
16 Sep
AI | More Business Wisdom
Rice Business faculty are exploring big questions about AI and how it’s reshaping business, technology and the classroom.
11 Sep
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Corporate Reputation | StrategyAs corporate value has become more intangible, leaders have less control over how their organizations are perceived. Anastasiya Zavyalova explains what that means for reputation strategy.28 Aug
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Corporate Social Activism | MarketingResearch offers a new framework to help CEOs decide if, when and how to engage in politics.14 Aug
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CEO Compensation | Finance
Professor John Barry’s research offers a fresh perspective on executive compensation.
September 12
Work Motivation | Organizational Behavior
Professor Mijeong Kwon’s research finds that loving your work can be valuable — but treating it as the only “right” reason to pursue a career can cause harm.
August 29
Corporate Disclosures | Accounting
In years with strong performance, corporate disclosures are more helpful for stock price discovery — in bad news years, not so much.
August 15
Crisis Resilience | Operations
New research shows how to tap customer support when times get tough.
July 31
AI | Organizational Behavior
Gen AI tools like ChatGPT can spark creativity at work — but only if employees think strategically in real time.
July 18
Corporate Social Activism | Strategy
Companies often avoid using a “collective action frame” in their messaging until after a controversial issue is legally and politically settled.
June 27
Forecasting | Finance
New research reveals how overreliance on past earnings skews corporate forecasts — and what can be done about it.
June 13
Institutional Crisis | Strategy
In the wake of scandal, organizations face a critical question: who will stay committed and who will leave? The answer depends largely on what type of institutional events people attend — and how far the scandal spreads.
May 30
Policy | Finance
A “permissive governance” policy is empowering financial advisers to fight the exploitation of older Americans.
May 16
Entrepreneurship | Organizational Behavior
Startups that lose a founder are much less likely to pivot to new industries — a vulnerability that becomes even more dangerous during economic downturns.
May 02
